Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Blue Line is the term used in New York state for the boundaries of the Adirondack and Catskill parks, within which can be found the state's Forest Preserve. The state constitution requires that any property owned or acquired by the state in those parks \"be forever kept as wild forest lands\" and prohibits it from selling or transferring them in any way (save amending that section of the constitution to allow specific transactions).It is so called because blue ink was used when they were first drawn on state maps. That started a tradition that persists to this day (although private mapmakers have just as often used green). While they were originally meant merely to guide the acquisition of future Forest Preserve land, over time they have come to define and have legal impact on all lands, public and private, within them."@en }
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- Blue_Line_(New_York_State) abstract "The Blue Line is the term used in New York state for the boundaries of the Adirondack and Catskill parks, within which can be found the state's Forest Preserve. The state constitution requires that any property owned or acquired by the state in those parks \"be forever kept as wild forest lands\" and prohibits it from selling or transferring them in any way (save amending that section of the constitution to allow specific transactions).It is so called because blue ink was used when they were first drawn on state maps. That started a tradition that persists to this day (although private mapmakers have just as often used green). While they were originally meant merely to guide the acquisition of future Forest Preserve land, over time they have come to define and have legal impact on all lands, public and private, within them.".